Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-05-20
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Bill Nye Gladly Answers an Eager In
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Ellis Barstow, of Flint, Mich, writes:
II have seen recent scientific article in
which it is positively stated that an cleo
trio apparatus has been perfected by
which man may be enabled to shock
lion or other beast of prey in such a
manner as to take away his ferocity
and render him docile, kind and tract
able. would like to know if such is
the case, and if so, whether the ma
chine can be procured at nominal
cost. | have position offered me next
season with an allied show as a lion
tamer and its salary is better than
what am now receiving as school
teacher. have often thought would
like to be lion tanner if / could, in an
transformations manner, remove the
ferocity from his nature. No one loves
lions better than do, but dislike the
sensation when they send their hot
breath down into my neck, and feel
their bright red gooms in my person.
Two-Also, could you tell me wheth-
or this same electrical apparatus would
work on large, anonymous dog with
= fierce nature and low instinctsp
Three-What is good for lacerated
wound made partly by barbed wire
fence and partially by coarse, self
made dogp
Four-Do you think that love is abid-
ing or is it ephemeral in it's natureP
F;ve-If l do not succeed in getting a
place as lion tanner, would you assist me
to position as conductor of chair car
On some progressive railway
Six-How do you like my penman-
,hipp
Seven-State what you know of the
mind cure, of which we hear so muchp
Eighth you had your life to live
over again would you be an humoristP
Answer: First-Two years ago the
Pail Mall Gazette announced the appli-
cation of electricity to the containing
industry in such a way as TO make every
man his own lion tanner. Mr.. Ranspach,
a professional lion tanner, was the in
ventor. 1t consists of a stick three feet
N length, containing supply of cleo
tricity sufficient for one application. 1t
was claimed for it by Mr.. Ranspach that
he had tried it on three lions, each of
whom Immediately retracted all he had
ever said derogatory to Mr.. Ranspach,
and hoped to do better IN the future.
He also tried it on large streaked
Tiger with aired morocco mouth from
Farther India. He had been in the man.
eating trade while abroad, and had also
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the entire crop of children in one pre-
,inct. People at last got almost dis
outraged about trying to raise children
in that climate. Mr.. Ranspach shocked
This tiger with his justly celebrated
shocker, and the huge brute became
perfectly tractable.
A large bear was treated for half an
hour, but did not get tame so fast as
could have been wished. After he had
been subdued, as was supposed, he ate
part of a tall woman who lived near
Peoria, ILL.,, and who would have died if
been made of woven wire. This Incl
lent induced quite a number of ladies
afterward to adopt this method of pro-
5ecting themselves.
The boa constructor was the most
readily affected He curled up in his
cage and did not awake for two days,
and when he did so his hat was four
sizes too small for his head He showed
signs of numbness also for three whole
lays The elephant became at once
wild and almost ungovernable on being
treated with electricity and it was de-
cided not to use it on him any more
So you see the effect is not always the
same. In fact, the machine is not al
ways sure to operate, owing to defect
i've mechanism. A job printer from
st. Joe, Mo-, was once asked by a friend
Of his, who was lion tanner, to sub
for him at a matinee, as he wanted to
go away and get married. He had one
of these electric lion quellers, which he
told the job printer how to use, but
when he entered the cage and tried to
squirt about twenty cents worth of
electricity down the throat of big,
lopen-faced lion, he found to his chagrin
that it would not work. Either the
OiON'iiSioJ h"a OoSdPCu VI Hdu sOuIcu
so that it was of no avail, and, as the
job printer did not know the way out of
the den. he fed one of his arms to the
fierce lion while kind friends were heat
ing some pokers to pry open the jaws
of the ferocious brute. The job printer
afterwards prepared for the press a
scathing criticism on 1.-The Uses and
Abuses of Electricity"
You can do as you think best about
becoming lion tanner, but as for me,
would rather be a Mexican hairless dog
hunting for the open Polar Sea than to
earn $3.50 per day sticking my polished
dome of thought into the massive jaws
of an irritable Numidian lion.
8. For lacerated wound made by
barbed wire fence and an. impulsive
dog, would suggest change of scene
and rest You would rest standing nm